Culture, Identity and Broadcasting in Ireland: local issues, global PerspectivesIreland Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's Universit 1991 0853894094 / 9780853894094 1st Edition Glossy Pictorial Soft Cover Very Good 12mo 156 pages. Broadcasting plays a central role in promoting and defining notions of national and cultural identity. In Ireland, where identity and cultural tradition is an area of conflict and dispute, broadcasting plays this role in extremely difficult circumstances. However, the changing political configuration of Europe and the impact of new broadcasting technologies, as well as recent policy developments have profound implications for the relationship between broadcasting and notions of identity. This book records the proceedings of a symposium, sponsored by the Cultural Traditions Group and hosted by Media Studies at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, which looked at these questions in detail. In an introductory essay, ‘Inventions and Re-imaginings: Some thoughts on Broadcasting and Identity in Ireland‘, the conference organiser, Martin McLoone provides a challenging analysis of the historical context to these debates and offers his own thoughts on future developments. Martin McLoone is a Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Ulster, Coleraine. His publications include Media Studies in Education (Dublin, 1983), and Television and Irish Society (edited with J. MacMahon; Dublin 1984).
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The Truth about the Killing of Daniel Yock: Workers Inquiry Exposes Police MurderAustralia Labour Press Books 1994 1875639063 / 9781875639069 1st Edition Half-Leather Good 12mo 158 pages including b/w illustrations. On March l9, 1994 an independent Workers Inquiry was convened in Brisbane to uncover the truth about the police killing of Daniel Yock, an 18 year old Aboriginal youth. Yock died on November 7, 1993 after being chased and tackled to the ground by police, handcuffed, left unconscious and then dumped in the back of a police paddy‘ wagon - all in broad daylight in front of eye-witnesses. Yock was the 52nd Aborigine to die in custody since the May 1989 cut-off date for the federal Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, and the 151st since 1980. Held in the face of strenuous efforts by the state to silence it, the Workers Inquiry exposed not only the cause of Yock’s death, but the elaborate cover-up organised by the police, the Goss government and the Aboriginal leaderships. This volume contains the record of the campaign conducted by the Socialist Labour League and the Committee for a Workers Inquiry, the evidence which was presented to the public hearing, and the findings brought down by the Workers Inquiry. Name in the first page.
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Who Cares About Elderly People?USA Child's Play 1992 0859533522 / 9780859533522 Stapled Pictorial Cover Good 12mo Pam Adams 32 colour illustrated pages. "The Who Cares Series" helps us to learn about ourselves, our world and our responsibilities, and fosters caring, sharing and loving instincts. This book "Who Cares About Elderly People?" teaches us that we have to help each other. Reminds that young people and old people have a lot to give each other. Time spent with old people is never wasted.
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Adair, Daryl; Vamplew, WraySport in Australian History (Australian Retrospectives)Australia Oxford University Press 1998 0195535901 / 9780195535907 Reprint Soft Cover Very Good 12mo 169 indexed pages. Australians are often said to be obsessed with sport, and playing and watching sport have long been regarded as national pastimes. Sport in Australian History is an innovative and exciting study of the political, economic, social, and cultural role that sport has played in Australia since European settlement. The authors investigate many of the myths surrounding the place of sport in Australian culture. They demonstrate that, although Australians are far from unique in their fascination with sport, a historical study of their involvement - both as participants and spectators - can nevertheless tell us a great deal about Australian society. Indeed, in many respects, sport can be viewed as a microcosm of wider society, reflecting, for example, attitudes to violence and gender relations. Taking a thematic approach, the authors dwell on the values, ideas, and myths that have shaped the nations sporting culture over time. The book focuses on issues such as the sports industry; the place of women; the participation of groups not traditionally involved in mainstream Australian sport (such as Aborigines, the disabled, ethnic groups, and the aged); the influence of science and technology; and controversial topics such as violence, drugs, corruption, the law, and the role of childrens sport. Readers interested in sport, culture, recreation, and history will find much to enjoy in this challenging and thought-provoking book. Contents: Part 1: Sporting belief,historical record. Part 2: The sports industry. Part 3: Political football. Part 4: Sporting women. Part 5: Groups on the margins - minority experiences in sport. Part 6: Stretching the limits - sports performance. Part 7: Not "playing the game" - problems in sport. Part 8: State of play; major readings.
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Ager, DennisMotivation in Language Planning and Language Policy (Multilingual Matters)UK Multilingual Matters 2001 1853595284 / 9781853595288 1st Edition Soft Cover Good 12mo 210 indexed pages including bibliography. The aim of this book is to investigate motives for action on language. Seven seem to recur: identity, insecurity, ideology, image, inequality, integration and instrumentality. The author relates those to wider issues of personal and social motivation, discussing the language strategies, plans and policies of a number of individuals, communities and states. Table of Contents: Introduction; 1. Identity; Regional Languages in France 1539 to 195; Arabic in Algeria 1962 to 1990; Catalan 1978 to 1998; Indian Language Policy from 1950; The 1993 Welsh Language Act; 2. Ideology; The Standard Language in the UK 1988-1995; 3. Image; Language Spread: The Case for German; Japanese Abroad; A European Language Policy; 4. Insecurity; Language Policy in Central Europe: Fear of the Gypsies?; Official Neologisms in French; 5. Inequality; Language and Gender; The European Chart for Regional and Minority Languages; The Australian National Policy on languages; 6. Integration and Instrumentality; Immigration; The lingua franca; Individuals and Language Acquisition; 7. Measuring Motivation in language Planning and Language Policy; 8. The Language Behaviour of Individuals and Communities; 9. Language Policy: the Language Behaviour of those in Power; 10. Conclusion. The Author is Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages at Aston University, UK. His interests lie in the interface between language and society.
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Aggleton, PeterRebels Without a Cause? Middle Class Youth and the Transition from School to WorkU.S.A. Taylor & Francis 1987 1850002258 / 9781850002253 1st Edition Hard Cover Good 12mo 159 indexed pages. Academic underachievement has long been of interest to teachers and educationalists, as have been the forms of ‘resistance’ employed by disaffected young people in schools and colleges. This book presents findings from a three - year ethnographic study of a group of ‘underachieving’ students in an English college of further education. It identifies patterns of cultural affirmation and ‘resistance’ amongst young people from new middle class backgrounds, and examines the relationship between these and the students’ home and out-of-college lives. The study also examines the consequences of new middle class youth cultural styles for the reproduction of class and gender relations, and raises questions about the radical significance, or otherwise, of middle class ‘resistance’ to schooling. Pictured is the title page of the book.
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Alan J. MoranThe Tragedy of Planning: Losing the Great Australian DreamAustralia Institute of Public Affairs (AU) 2006 0909536678 / 9780909536671 1st Edition Soft Cover Very Good 12mo 85 pages including bibliographical references. The regulatory-induced price burden dashes the hopes of a great many aspiring home owners and has the potential to undermine the social cohesion and property ownership that does much to define us as a community. Reducing the regulatory imposts that are creating these conditions has to be a major priority.
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Alderman, Clifford LindseyRum, Slaves, and MolassesU. K. Bailey Bros & Swinfen 1974 0561002053 / 9780561002057 1st Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 12mo 127 indexed pages about the transatlantic slave trade that took place between late 16th and early 19th centuries, envolving slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, Caribbean or American colonies and the European colonial powers. The exploitation of African slaves was fundamental to growing colonial cash crops which were traded with Europe. In turn, European goods were used to buy African slaves who were then taken to the Americas. Name and date in the first page.
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Allaby, MichaelThe Food Chain: A Game of ChoiceU. K. Andre Deutsch 1984 0233976817 / 9780233976815 1st Edition Hard Cover Good 12mo 176 pages including an introduction with 5 pages and 500 numbered paragraphs.This book is a game, like the adventure games you may have played before, and in it you play the part of a ruler. As you read the 500 numbered paragraphs, you have suggested choices which lead you from paragraph to paragraph, just as you would in an adventure game, but the choices you have to make are concerned with the real world, and with feeding hungry people. You will meet famine, civil war, food riots and have to decide between the different claims of people in your country. You may be tempted to give up, but there are successful solutions, only the search for them is long and hard. When you see pictures on television of starving people, usually their misery is due to a local catastrophe. Perhaps there has been an earthquake, or an unusually long drought, or perhaps they are running away from a war that has destroyed their homes and their farms. We send help to such people. We send medicines, blankets, clothes, and we send food. They can be helped because we can see quite clearly what it is they need. This book is people we see less often. They suffer because they are poor; they are poor in ways we ?nd it dif?cult to understand. Do you receive pocket money each week? How much? Let us suppose you are given $1 - and many young people receive more than that. This means that not counting birthday or Christmas money, or special spending money for holidays, you receive $52 a year. That is about as much as the average person earns in a year in Bhutan, the world’s poorest country. That amount must buy food, clothes, fuel for cooking and heating, and it must pay for the home and its repair.
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Ambrose, TomHeroes and Exiles Gay Icons Through the AgesU. K. New Holland 2010 1847734685 / 9781847734686 1st Edition Pictorial Soft Cover Very Good 12mo 216 indexed pages. Demonised by the Church throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, homosexuals became the scapegoats of society, constantly facing exile or a brutal death. In "Heroes to Exiles", the human cost of this long exile is told through the lives of the most eminent homosexual men and women in history. Some were artists like the wild living Benvenuto Cellini or the repressed Edward Lear. Others were poets such as Thomas Gray, W. H. Auden or novelists such as Henry James and A. J. Symonds. Their places of refuge changed through the centuries from Italy in the 18th, to Paris in the 19th and Berlin, California and Tangier in the 20th. Some experiences were tragic, like those of William Beckford, Lord Byron or Oscar Wilde, and some were triumphant, like the remarkable story of the Ladies of Llangollen who became the most famous lesbians in Europe. Often treated with outright suspicion, homosexuals were targets for the totalitarian dictatorships of the 20th century. As such they were consigned in their tens of thousands to exile in Siberia or to the Nazi death camps. Even when peace returned after World War II most democracies still proscribed homosexual behaviour, forcing the Americans Paul Bowles and James Baldwin to seek exile in Europe and North Africa. Today the tolerance of Ancient Greece has returned to most Western societies although homosexuals are still persecuted in some Islamic countries such as Iran. In "Heroes to Exiles", Tom Ambrose asks if we have finally realised that sexual orientation is as irrelevant to character and achievement as gender and skin colour and if the long exile has ended.
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Anne SummersThe Misogyny FactorAustralia NewSouth Pub 2013 1742233848 / 9781742233840 1st Edition Soft Cover Very Good 12mo x +182 indexed pages. In 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Australia, attracting more than 120,000 visits to her website. Within weeks of their delivery Prime Minister Julia Gillard's own speech about misogyny and sexism went viral and was celebrated around the world. Summers makes the case that Australia, the land of the fair go, still hasn't figured out how to make equality between men and women work. She shows how uncomfortable we are with the idea of women with political and financial power, let alone the reality. Summers dismisses the idea that we should celebrate progress for women as opposed to outright success. She shows what success will look like. eBook available from UNSW Bookshop View the table of contents here.
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Ashby, GeneSome Things of Value: Micronesian Customs and Beliefs - Revised EditionU.S.A. Rainy Day Press 1985 0931742129 / 9780931742125 Revised Edition Soft Cover Good Small 12mo 245 indexed pages including illustrations. The customs of Micronesians are similar in generalities from Palau to the Marshalls, but vary considerably in particulars. Those described in this book relate to: childbirth; land and food; marriage; traditional legends and beliefs; the practice of skills; and funerals. lslands and atolls containing all but about five percent of the people are represented in this book, and in most instances it is the first published writing by Micronesians about customs on their own islands. The sections are arranged by political entities, geographically from west to east. Topics begin with childbirth and are followed by land and food, marriage, legends and beliefs, skills. and funerals. Information on all of these topics is included for the larger islands such as the Palaus, Yap, Truk. Pohnpei, and Kosrae. To this revised edition have been added superstitions and beliefs. Some are particular to specific islands or groups, and others are known throughout Micronesia.
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Australian Building Construction Employees and Builders Labourers' FederationIndigenous Peoples, Racism and the United NationsAustralia Common Ground Pub 2001 1863350691 / 9781863350693 1st Edition Glossy Pictorial Soft Cover Very Good 12mo 240 pages. This book was published as both a record of conference proceedings, the workshops and the papers given, and a series of recommendations to be taken forward as agenda items for the United Nations at the World Conference in Durban, South Africa, September 2001. The Regional Meeting of Indigenous Peoples on the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance was hosted by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIe in Sydney, Australia in February 2001. The meeting, designated a satellite meeting by the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights, provided a forum allowing discussion and presentation by Indigenous Peoples from Aotearoa/New Zealand, mainland United States, Hawaii, Canada and Australia on racism and racial discrimination issues that affect Indigenous Peoples in those countries. Indigenous Peoples, Racism and the United Nations preserves a record for those who participated in the Sydney Conference as well as becoming a means to disseminate and canvass both local and international issues of racism and identity in the wider public domain. As well it serves to demystify the role and activities of the United Nations in relation to racism and Indigenous Peoples. This is a book addressing policy makers and politicians, but it is much more than that. It includes a collection of voices telling it 'like it is' for many of the world's Indigenous Peoples. It is a book that should be widely read by non-Indigenous communities as a means of connection with the humanity in us all, and as a call for change. Upper corner of the first leaf was cut off; no text is affected though.
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Australian Catholic Social Justice Council StaffI Am a Stranger: Will You Welcome Me?Australia Collins Dove 1991 1863710566 / 9781863710565 1st Edition Stapled Soft Cover Very Good 12mo 59 pages including b/w illustrations. An issues paper from the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council on significant issues in the immigration debate and their implications for ethics and faith. How many migrants should we share Australia With? Who should they be? Who should decide and how? In this paper the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council seeks to promote understanding of some significant issues in the immigration debate in Australia, and the ethical and faith implications of these — so as to help people involve themselves in the debate and in in?uencing the direction of our immigration policy. Immigration will, after all, be a major determinant of What kind of place Australia will be in the next century. Small light stains in the lower edges.
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Banks, GlendaOptions for the Elderly and Those Who Care for ThemAustralia Hale & Iremonger 1994 0868065250 / 9780868065250 1st Edition Glossy Pictorial Soft Cover Very Good 12mo 175 indexed pages. Advice for older people, caring families and helping professionals on providing care for the elderly in the community. This new edition updates the 1984 edition with information on services available and pilot programs in place which address the issues. A broad range of issues including legal matters, medicine, finance, nutrition, family relationships, recreation, personal security, accommodation and practical management are addressed. The perspective and feelings of the elderly themselves is always the focus and individual case studies are included throughout. Includes a bibliography and an index. The author is a journalist with a special interest in social issues and has written five other books on custodial parenting, access-parenting, family management, mother-child and father-child relationships. Inscription in the last page.
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Banks, GlendaPractical Guide for Access FathersAustralia Dove Communications 1982 0859242196 / 9780859242196 1st Edition Glossy Soft Cover Very Good 12mo 108 pages. This is a book which is both sensitive and practical and one which manages to keep a clear focus on the continuing needs of children following the separation of their parents. An informative and supportive book for access parents who wish to minimise the negative effects of their separation or divorce for their children. For access parents, time with their children is limited. A prime aim of this book is to help these parents use this limited time as effectively as possible, in re-establishing and maintaining loving and supportive relationships with their children. It is a practical guide. It is filled with clear and simple advice covering the many situations access parents find themselves in. What reason does a father give his child for apparently walking out on him? How does he set up his separate residence to cater for a child‘? What does he feed a two, six or ten year old? How can discipline still be exercised effectively? How does a single parent introduce prospective partners to his children? Glenda Banks has consulted a wide range of people with practical knowledge of family counselling, medicine, education and the behavioural sciences. She supports and illustrates her comments with many case histories which make immediate and concrete the topic under discussion. Inscription in the first page.
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